Kenner v. Southwestern Oil Co.

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• awarding two times the statutory minimum for non-willful infringement of one photograph because Plaintiff did not show any harm from the infringement, and $1,500 adequate to “put infringers on notice”
• finding no intentional or reckless conduct where the defendant’s owner obtained infringing image from a “‘free website’ and believed the [i]mage was ‘free’” and “‘believed he took steps to make sure he was using a free image’ by searching only for ‘free’ images”
• “Ezelle did not accept Reed’s offer, but instead rejected it and made a counteroffer by returning the Proposed Settlement Agreement with the confidentiality clause crossed out.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).